Credential vs Merit - What's the difference?
credential | merit |
of, pertaining to or entitling to credit or authority
* Camden
documentary evidence that a person has certain status or privileges
to furnish with
* {{quote-book, 1997, Paul Thomas Hill et al., Reinventing Public Education
, passage=School superintendents, principals, and teachers are currently credentialed only by the state.}}
* {{quote-news, year=2009, date=March 7, author=By Patrick Walters, title=Rudd orders worldwide push for UN seat, work=Herald Sun
, passage=The newly credentialled ambassador to the Holy See is already in the PM's good books.}}
Something deserving positive recognition.
Something worthy of a high rating.
A claim to commendation or reward.
The quality of deserving reward.
* Shakespeare
* Alexander Pope
Reward deserved; any mark or token of excellence or approbation.
* Prior
(obsolete) The quality or state of deserving either good or bad; desert.
* Shakespeare
To earn or to deserve.
*
, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5
, passage=Although the Celebrity was almost impervious to sarcasm, he was now beginning to exhibit visible signs of uneasiness, the consciousness dawning upon him that his eccentricity was not receiving the ovation it merited .}}
To be worthy or deserving.
(obsolete, rare) To reward.
As nouns the difference between credential and merit
is that credential is documentary evidence that a person has certain status or privileges while merit is something deserving positive recognition.As verbs the difference between credential and merit
is that credential is to furnish with credentials while merit is to earn or to deserve.As an adjective credential
is of, pertaining to or entitling to credit or authority.credential
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- their credential letters on both sides
Noun
(wikipedia credential) (en noun)Verb
citation
citation
See also
* (Credentialing)Anagrams
*merit
English
Noun
(en noun)- His reward for his merit was a check for $50.
- Reputation is oft got without merit , and lost without deserving.
- To him the wit of Greece and Rome was known, / And every author's merit , but his own.
- His teacher gave him ten merits .
- those laurel groves, the merits of thy youth
- Be it known, that we, the greatest, are misthought / For things that others do; and when we fall, / We answer others' merits in our name.
Synonyms
* (l) * (l)Antonyms
* (l)Verb
(en verb)- (Chapman)